freebsd stable - Nov 2005 - 6.0-RELEASE Dell PE 850

Morning all,

After ordering a stack of Dell PE 850 boxes I found out, by experience, that
6.0-RELEASE doesn't work with it. It does recognize the S-ATA controller,
but install says it can't find any disks.

The disk is a standard Maxtor 80GB S-ATA disk (although a Seagate didn't
work either). The controller is an Intel ICH7.

Any suggestions?

Regards,
Johan Kooijman

On Nov 14, 2005, at 6:31 AM, Johan Kooijman wrote:
> After ordering a stack of Dell PE 850 boxes I found out, by  
> experience, that
> 6.0-RELEASE doesn't work with it. It does recognize the S-ATA  
> controller,
> but install says it can't find any disks.
there was some discussion about this on the pfSense (firewall  
software built on 6.0) a week or so ago.  Apparently there is some  
kernel patch that allows the PE850 to work.  perhaps digging thru the  
pfSense mailing list archives will help find it.

Not sure the status of having that patch merged back into the FreeBSD  
main code.  I certainly hope it will be, given how popular these  
boxes are.